Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
Tl; DR
- Google began to deploy the expressive redesign of Gmail equipment 3 via a server side switch to certain users.
- The design updates include more colored use, rounded cards, minor modifications of the Composer button and a new scanning animation design.
Expressive 3 equipment is the flavor of the season, even if the wider deployment of the UX to the basic system of Android 16 will occur later in the year. The design language has already made its debut with Android 16 QPR1 BETA, and we note that many Google applications are updated to adopt it. Google has already shown the expressive Gmail Material Expressive Cure, but we now have a better look because it has started to move to certain users.
With the Gmail App V2025.05.11 version, Google seems to have overturned a server side switch which allows expressive design modifications of the Gmail application 3. The Sparkradar user on Telegram received these changes and shared some of the screenshots below:
One of the biggest changes with the expressive overhaul of Gmail material 3 is that you will see a little more color in the application, the user interface based on the card favoring more tonal variations.
Currently, Gmail uses a primary accent on the main landing screen, with the exception of the search area, the lower tab and the composed button, which are all accentuated differently. With its expressive redesign of material 3, the list of messages is like a card on a lighter background, and you can distinguish the subtle rounded corners at the top and bottom. The Composer button also uses a thicker font and the pencil icon is now filled.
On one of their Gmail accounts, the account switcher is also charged outside the search bar, which is new. Some screenshots display the account switch inside the search bar, as is currently the case, because the server side features are often activated on a account per account.
We can review the user -based user interface in action on the email screen. Although the summary extract of the card -based commands already existed, the messaging screen adopts the same thing, but with a different edge width. In addition, from what we can observe, the colors of the summary extract of the command are now lighter.
In addition, as Google had already pointed out, the expressive version of the Gmail application 3 also includes a new pill -shaped button animation for scanning gestures:
As mentioned, these modifications are gradually deployed via a server side switch. We expect more and more users to receive the new update in the coming days.
